How would you like to be awakened by an airplane landing in your living room? It happened in Herndon , Virginia. Fortunately, it was a sma...

Maybe I should amend the title: Some Republicans are Nuts. Rick Santorum, for example. Today's headline: Senate rejects treaty to p...

Here's a thought-provoking op-ed from the New York Times tying the Trayvon Martin killing to the rapid growth of gated communities and ...

Were the police on the campus of the University of California, Davis, exceptionally annoyed? Perhaps they were exceptionally incompetent. ...

This morning at the Bean before I arrived, an incumbent commissioner loudly disputed with another patron my contention that hiring policeme...

Prior to May 21, 2009, Oriental had a two-person police force. On that day, officer Careway resigned "for personal reasons," leavi...

The television scene of a wildly enthusiastic crowd dancing and waving flags in Lafayette Square last night across from the White House remi...

Like most folks, I've been watching the TV reports of the disaster in Japan. I'm in awe of the courage and persistence of the nuclea...

It has been 45 years since I lived in Japan. Much has changed, but much remains the same. Forty-five years ago, it was not clear that Japane...

"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance). The legend is that the Second Amendment to t...

If I were asked what qualities or views I would seek in a new Town manager, at the top of my list would be the abandonment of the "comp...

There was great relief in Oriental when we learned that the County Sheriff's Department had arrested the alleged perpetrators of a numbe...

At the 13 October special meeting of the Town Board (called by me and Candy Bohmert), the Board of Commissioners directed the Town Manager t...

Last spring, Oriental's police deputy unexpectedly resigned. The town commissioners decided to try a one-person police department. That ...